Dale is chair of the Employee Benefits Practice Group. He focuses his practice on all employee benefit matters including pension, profit sharing and 401(k) planning design, operation and compliance matters, ESOPs, welfare benefit plans (e.g., group health, life, dependent care programs) design, operation and compliance matters, ERISA litigation, and multi-employer pension plans. He serves as benefits counsel to a number of middle-market and larger companies. Dale is licensed to practice in Ohio, Iowa and Wisconsin.

Dale earned his J.D., with high distinction, from the University of Iowa College of Law in 1982, and a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1978. He received an M.A. and B.A. from Cleveland State University in 1972 and 1970, respectively.